FEAST ON THIS! For the second year, Front Porch Arts Collective offers its Holiday Feast of staged readings of scripts from the holiday episodes of Black sitcoms of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:46AM[SHARE]A PLAY TO BE THANKFUL FOR Director Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma/Mvskoke) leans into the challenge of bringing the satirical comedy The Thanksgiving Play to the stage with "a full …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:56PM[SHARE]NOISES OFF, LAUGHS ON Just in time for the holiday season, Lyric Stage Company of Boston has something for audiences eager for some silly fun. Written by Michael Frayn the quintessential far…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:50AM[SHARE]GALILEO'S THEORIES WOULD PROVE THAT THE SUN DOESN'T MOVE " GALILEO'S DAUGHTER ALSO DOESN'T MOVE It's an intriguing notion: the ground-breaking scientist and astronomer Galileo Galilei, who d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23PM[SHARE]A TIME-TRAVELING JANE AUSTEN What if Jane Austen had managed to read The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's groundbreaking 1963 exploration of why well-educated and prosperous women were so …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:05PM[SHARE]SOMETIMES YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT I have been in a foul mood for the past several days, looking for ways to smash the patriarchy, cursing the unseasonably warm and dry November in my soul …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:44PM[SHARE]SETTING THE STAGE FOR AN EXTRAORDINARY CYCLE OF SHOWS How appropriate! I thought, as I stood in the August Wilson Lobby of the Huntington Theatre last night. I was about to see Sojourners, t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]On Sunday, November 10, 2024, Boston Lyric Opera's one-performance-only of Giuseppe Verdi's triumphal masterpiece Aida precedes the return of its annual fundraiser that supports access throu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]MEMORY AS AN ACT OF LOVE The East Coast premiere of playwright Steven Drukman's snappy and cleverly written Pru Payne is movingly brought to the stage under SpeakEasy Stage founder Paul Daig…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:37PM[SHARE]A PLAY THAT'S OUT OF THE BOX Like an acrobat without a net who thrills us with her daring, Iranian-German playwright Nassim Soleimanpour offers a play with virtually no set, no costumes, and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:16PM[SHARE]THE LAUGHS ARE IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH, TOO Playwright Alexis Scheer draws on her Colombian-Jewish upbringing in Miami to create this comic celebration of the city's Wynwood arts scene and th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES Courtney O'Connor's masterful direction of the unpleasantly titled Urinetown: The Musical brings together numerous wonderful performances along with great music (Da…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]A LIVELY AND TIMELY EXAMINATION OF VOTING BEHAVIOR Fight Night, brought to seven American states by the Belgian performance group Ontroerend Goed (a punning name, roughly translated as "Feel…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]A TRIUMPHANT SAGA OF A VIENNESE FAMILY The Huntington and director Carey Perloff bring Tom Stoppard's beautifully written Leopoldstadt to Boston with engaging performances that make the comp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:40AM[SHARE]ATMOSPHERIC, MOODY, DARK AND MODERN, ROMEO AND JULIET AT A.R.T. BELONGS TO THE AGES As summer turns to autumn, American Repertory Theater brings a dark and moody interpretation of Romeo and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:25PM[SHARE]SUPPLIANT AND DEMAND Looking for a thoroughly pleasant evening on the banks of the Mystic River? Head for Chelsea's PORT Park and a transfixing performance of The Suppliant Women, by the Gre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:41PM[SHARE]ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES! The pre-Broadway production of The Queen of Versailles, studded with Broadway royalty, understandably had Boston abuzz at the opening last night. Despite th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:13PM[SHARE]AS USUAL, THE WOMEN DEAL WITH THE MESS Hub Theatre Company's pay-what-you-will production of 46 Plays for America's First Ladies offers a series of playlets as varied as the women portrayed.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:10AM[SHARE]IT REALLY IS AN ENCHATED EVENING I had never seen South Pacific, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's famed and highly successful musical (winner 1950 Pulitzer and numerous Tony awards in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:33AM[SHARE]GREAT F. SCOTT! F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby recently entered the public domain, and as we approach the centenary of this American classic published in 1925, there is a plethora of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:28PM[SHARE]YOU'LL LEAVE THIS ASTONISHING PRODUCTION POSSESSED It's not often I would feel compelled to begin a review with mention of the creative team, but director Igor Golyak " co-adapting with …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]MAKING FACES You've heard of a play-within-a-play? Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang offers us a play-within-a-play-within-a-play in the semi-autobiographical Yellow Face. Lyric Sta…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:27PM[SHARE]PLAIN ENGLISH The New York production of English, written by Iranian-American Sanaz Toossi, won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2023. Directed by Diyan Zara, English is making its European pre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:04AM[SHARE]The Buddha of Suburbia, a lively and joyous coming-of-age story set in late 1970s suburban London is a delightful exploration of love in numerous forms, some painful, most unconventional, bu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]A THEATRICAL LOOP-DE-LOOP Playwright Michael R. Jackson's acclaimed A Strange Loop (winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical) is a shocking work of genius, beau…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]THE HOUR HAS COME Playwright David Valdes offers a touching insight into the complexities of family life for a transitioning teen in Mermaid Hour. The New England premiere of this 2016 Final…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:29PM[SHARE]THE MOUNT EVEREST OF PLAYS It's hard to say what is the most breathtaking aspect of the Apollinaire Theatre Company's masterful production of Touching the Void: Is it David Greig's deeply sa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:00AM[SHARE]THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Up-and-coming storyteller Gabe Mollica has brought his "sweet not sappy" 90-minute Solo: A Show About Friendship to Boston after 80 Off-Broadway performances and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:20AM[SHARE]FOUR WEDDINGS AND A MUSICAL Adore Broadway musicals? Hate Broadway musicals? Either way, you will love Lyric Stage's flip and frothy production of The Drowsy Chaperone. Director and choreogr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:36PM[SHARE]A NIGHT OF HIGH NOTES The beloved and versatile award-winning musical theater star Patti LuPone delighted those who packed Boston's Symphony Hall last evening with a series of high notes, lo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:13AM[SHARE]CUMMING OR GOING, YOU'LL WANT TO SEE THIS ONE Man of many parts, Alan Cumming discusses life's big issues: death, love, and, yes, the size of his scrotum in Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Ag…
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